Hit a train, hit the jackpot!

Coalition for Effective Transportation Alternatives (CETA) takes the position that all future collisions between trains and motor vehicles along the Central Link right of way would be chargeable to Sound Transit, because these collisions would be a direct, inevitable result of Sound Transit’s decision to implement a light rail right of way design that makes this type of collision possible.

What they’re essentially saying is that Sound Transit should be legally and financially liable for damages from all collisions, even when it is clearly the fault of the other vehicle’s driver. You know, hit a train and hit the jackpot… a policy that would have people plowing into trains all day long.

The preliminary investigation indicates the man driving the Chrysler was traveling southbound on and made an unlawful left turn against a red traffic signal into the path of a southbound light rail train at South Myrtle Street, according to police. […] The driver was ticketed for a red light violation

According to CETA’s John Niles, that “unlawful left turn against a red traffic signal” should qualify the driver for a pretty big payday. Sweet.

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Sounds reasonable to me. They could have chosen a type of right of way where collisions could not be possible. But, they decided to go with the collisions-will-happen right of way. So they should pay.

I wonder if Goldy thinks these people, his neighbors, who are running businesses along Marvin Luther King Way, are also crazy, for complaining to Kirotv.com that Link’s design is killing their business?

The author of that opinion (John Niles) works for TWO right wing think tanks: Discovery Institute and Washington Policy Center…so, of course, the auto driver is always going to be the victim, even when he/she runs a red light.

These anti-transit hacks also pretend to support Buses Stuck in Traffic when it’s politically expedious. Imagine the red ink Metro would be swimming in if these clowns applied the same standard to buses!

Ahhh…when Troll endorses you with his unbeatable kiss of death, you know your cause is toast.

The KIRO story he linked to cites a kook named Chris Van Dyk, who is a paid liar. And this scumbag is representing businesses who would rather have people get killed than them seeing one or two less customers per day.

Change happens if you run a business in a city. If you don’t want change, live in a cave with Troll. Out in the sticks….

Haywood and Troll, laughing it up over the collision this afternoon between a Link train and a motorist making an unlawful turn — I’ve often thought that anti-rail folks are actually HOPING for accidents, to add fuel to their otherwise flimsy arguments.

With their construction costs they don’t need lawyers to bankrupt them! They’ve already bankrupting the taxpayers! The antis need a better lawyer than they’ve got though — one who can explain “comparative fault” to them.

@13 You should ask Gregoire, the attorney who negotiated the largest legal settlement in the history of the world. She’ll explain the tobacco companies made their product addictive, which made them liable.

See, that’s where you went wrong. I’m a rabbit. And what makes you think rabbits like cars or highways? Do you have any idea how many rabbits get squashed on highways by cars? It takes an incredible amount of fucking to replace all those squashed rabbits.

Roger, With any luck at all, you are, at the moment, chomping on some fresh, organic carrots, and thinking about your next procreational endeavor. Might I ask you, interrupting your quest, how do the trolls who have posted here live with themselves? What, might I ask, is the reward of stupidity? Troll has been rewarded with the Golden Goat, yet he reappears here. How might we free ourselves of his stench? I suppose that rabbits and goats have no natural antipathy. I suspect, however, that rabbits don’t like trolls. What say ye?

Puddy Please don’t talk of flatulence. Your brain is filled with such every day, as you listen to Savage, Limbaugh, and Beck. Do you think that those folks offer you wisdom? Nah, they fill your head with the stinky gas that follows a gaseous dinner. Puddy, there ain’t no thinking on your side of the political aisle.

proud libtardo, we live well with ourselves. Can’t you remember the survey? Libtardos are less happy. The only thinking on your side of the aisle is how to take more money from peoples’ pockets and call it some great and wonderful program.

@28 “Might I ask you, interrupting your quest, how do the trolls who have posted here live with themselves?”

Easy. They have no conscience or empathy for their fellow creatures; in fact, they even hate themselves.

“What, might I ask, is the reward of stupidity?”

There are many rewards for stupidy. One is losing election after election. Another is the ceaseless bashing we righteously dish out to them in these comment threads. But most important, they will all go to Hell when they die. Frankly, they can’t go to hell fast enough to suit me.

“Troll has been rewarded with the Golden Goat, yet he reappears here. How might we free ourselves of his stench?”

That’s a tough one. I suggest hiring Ann Coulter as a consultant.

“I suppose that rabbits and goats have no natural antipathy. I suspect, however, that rabbits don’t like trolls. What say ye?”

As I’ve been saying all along, Republicans suck. What I’d really like to do, though, is get them to suck me. Trolls, for a good time call 1-900-LICK-ROG. Yes, this is a toll number, but all proceeds go to the Help Roger Rabbit Live Like A Republican Fund.

Being oblivious to reality is the way that idiot republicans are “more happy”. Of course republicans are more happy, they don’t have to worry about global warming (they just deny it), they don’t have to worry about the lousy Bush recession (they just deny it).

The only thing that troubles their tiny brains is gay marriage – seems that somehow threatens their putrid little alternative reality.

By this logic, cars at street level are also dangerous cause cars hit cars. So are power poles at street level as well as curbs, because cars hit poles and curbs. “This is the third incident involving a test train in Rainier Valley, …, and in one case, a person walked into the side of a train.” Darwin at work.

How come the conservatives are not ranting for personal responsibility and excoriating the driver for not being aware?

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